Insert your images where you want them. It is preferable to have them be the width of your post and center. Make sure horizontal and vertical images are the same width.

Make sure to add an alt tag to at least the pinnable image.

Finish Your Post

Add in your signature and a call to action (question, challenge, something at the end to engage your readers).

Select the categories and tags for your post.

Work on your SEO. I am still new to this, and as a WP user, I have the Yoast SEO plugin which makes it sooooo easy!

Preview your post to make sure everything looks good.

Schedule it out or immediately publish.

Share

Use the link to share your post on different social media. I typically schedule out my social media for the entire week on Saturdays, so I use schedulers.

Use Tweetdeck to schedule out tweets with a hyperlink. I tend to only do it three times a day. Include an image for at least one of these tweets.

Use your blog’s Facebook Page to schedule out a post–make sure you include an image.

Use Latergram to schedule out an instagram image. Try not to use your pinnable image if it has text (especially if it is the title of the post). When the Latergram notification comes up to post it, make sure it links to at least Facebook. This will get it on your personal page.

Join linkups!

Join comment or share threads on different Facebook blogging groups! But, make sure to pay it forward!

Reply to comments as soon as possible–you’ll get more engagement that way.

Pin it to at least one relevant board on your Pinterest acount.

Schedule out to have it pinned on different relevant boards and group boards intermittently throughout the next few weeks. I use Tailwind.

So, there you have it! I typically write all my posts for a week on Fridays/Saturdays and follow this checklist for each one. Meaning, I’ll go through this entire checklist for Monday’s post before beginning on Tuesday’s post. It works for me, I know exactly what to do and when, and it gets done.

What is your current Blog Post Checklist?

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Tayler is a work at home mom. She does free lance articles and dabbles in graphic design and virtual assisting for bloggers. She spent 3 years as a history and English teacher. Her passions are her husband, two children, history, reading, nature, and her Savior, Jesus Christ.

This is really great information. I’m so impressed that you write all your posts on Fridays and Saturdays. I really need to work on getting ahead like that. I also need to check out the info on making photos. Thank you so much!

I’m really excited to write it, but it probably won’t happen until April!

Desiree @ Macke Monologues

I wish I could get all most posts written in a few days. I’m terrible about that, even when I have the ideas in my head, or even a draft started. Usually I’m writing the night before I want a post published.

Wow, you’re thorough! I’ve become a much more ‘relaxed’ blogger ever since our most recent move–during this season, I’m not taking blogging as seriously as I did previously, and I’m comfortable with that. I do have my own list of habitual promotions that I do for every post–once in a while I give a most more promotional attention since I think it’s an especially good one.

These are great tips. I have a similar checklist but need to update it for sharing on Instagram and for including a call to action for each post. I hope you will linkup with our Small Victories Sunday Linkup too.

Love this list! So with Latergram, if you share it to Facebook, it’s posting to your personal FB page… not on your blog’s FB/business page? I’m looking for unobtrusive ways to share my content more frequently on my personal page, but hate ‘sharing’ from my blog’s page all the time.

If you go to your Instagram account settings, and scroll down, you can actually automatically link it to a FB page..I have mine linked to my blog’s page. What I have started to do is try to style relative pictures to the blog, but none that I actually use, for my Instagram. Then, I make a little summary or thought about the theme of the post. That way, on my personal FB page and IG page, they get the gist of the post, but don’t feel compelled to click through.

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